Early morning dampness

We’ve all experienced this. Early morning, you get up, taking care of Nature’s business and you look outside to see… nothing. Everything is white and no way to see a hand in front of your eyes. Well, maybe I exaggerate a little here, but you get the idea. My usual reaction to this phenomenon is to get back to bed. Sometimes, however, the opportunity is too good to pass up and I go outside instead.

A pair of deer

The last time this happened, my cat had woken me up, triggering nature’s calls and a serious invite to feed the furry animal. After that was taken care of, I looked outside and thought to myself: “Self, you should go outside and shoot some of this!”. So that’s what I did.

Skies of Manitoba (8)

This summer we are being treated again to a number of very interesting skies. I never get tired of them, even if some make me feel a bit uneasy. The first storm of the year for me was pretty far away, over Lake Winnipeg and witnessed from Matheson Island.

Local storm

At first glance it doesn’t look like much, but we could hear the thunder from that distance. That meant that the storm was pretty intense. I can only hope there was nobody unlucky enough to find himself underneath it.

Nopiming

A few days ago we wanted to get out of the city, out of the near neighbourhood of the city. Into the wilderness, so to speak. With Winnipeg as a starting point that always includes a fair amount of driving to get somewhere. Be it Riding Mountain National Park or the Whiteshell Provincial Park, driving a lot remains part of the trip. Nopiming Provincial Park is the same, just in a different direction.

Tulabi Lake

We started relatively early in the morning, with the heat already building up. On the road to Nopiming, the sky grew more and more cloudy. Little did we know that those clouds were the outskirts of the tornado-like weather they had in Ontario that day. The only weather we got was cloudy and a little rain.

Gone hunting

Seasons come, seasons go. When it’s stiflingly cold, we long for the warm summer. When summer finally arrives and presents its scorching 30+ degrees, we long for spring or fall. When they come, we want the brisk freezing air again because the roads are so dirty and the cars are wearing the roads like a cloak, it seems. Whatever season we are in, we always want the “other” season to be here. So why don’t we simply stop complaining and enjoy what we have at hand?

Western Screech Owl

Because that’s not in our nature. Humans always want what they don’t have. So here are a few birds that we don’t have right now. You can still enjoy them over a nice cool beer on the patio, no problem there Smile

Black Bear Island (3)

Black Bear Island, an uninhabited island in the middle of Lake Winnipeg. The day we went there to scout out the possibilities for a photo shooting weekend, we were overwhelmed. Overwhelmed with the sheer number of shots one could take of this undisturbed place.

Empty beaches for as far as the eye can see

Imagine a place where nobody ever walks, there is no trash from previous visitors, apart from the “usual” flotsam thrown on the shores by the wind. Broken tree stumps, branches and such.

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